Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-02-26


of Labor.
Charlotte will have another assem-
bly, K. Of L. in few weeks.
The biggest strike now before the
country is that of the Boston street car
drivers
Castor county has ten assemblies
Knights of Labor, with total menu
bership of about 800.
Wheel moulders Of the st. Charles,
Mo-, car works struck for an increase
of five cents per wheel.
The strike is still on in the Walker
county, Ala, coal mines, and miners
are warned to stay away.
Mountain Island Assembly, in Gas
ton county, N. c., is making arrange
ments to erect fine hall
The weavers of Alamance county
want better wages. They are now paid
20 cents per "cut' of As yards.
Hudson Owls. } Knights made every
poor widow in that city a present Of
sack of -four during the holidays.
The masons and plastercrs of Indi-
annapolis, Ind, will continue the nine
hour system during the coming season.
The strikers in Hoboken, N. j..
have been told by their landlords that
they need pay no rent until the strike
ends.
A bill requiring all employers to
pay wages weekly after July l, has
been introduced in the Ohio Legisla-
ture.
VIM. Kraft, clothing manufacture
in New York, reduced wages shor
time ago and now $50 of his employee
are out ON a strike.
The lasters in Flynn's shoe factory,
Lynn, Mass, are on strike against the
firms demand that they pay ten cents
each per week for gas light.
The convention of the Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Firemen, comprising
$40 lodges of 1900 members, wa,
held in Scranton, Pa, last week.
The boiler makers of San Francisco,
CAL, have passed resolution to fine
any of their members $40 if they ride
on either the Geary or Sutton street
cars.
The carpenters of Camden, N. j.,
have passed resolution that after the
LIST of April no member of the union
shall be allowed to work with non
union men.
The coopers of Chicago all struck
recently against reduction of wages.
Four firms have withdrawn the de-
mand and their men resumed work.
About 100 are still out.
Thcfe are many girls in Belgium
who work in the coal mines from a.
m. to 8 p. m, and sometimes to II p.
m. They each load from 60 to 10
coal cars daily and they earn 40 cents
a day.
The school children at the St. Louis
graded schools struck few days ago
for longer play hours. The strike only
lasted for a short time, as their parents
and the professors soon brought them
to terms.
The Wyandotte Kan. cooperative
association has passed the first 81 600
limit, having POI shares subscribed
for. They expect to open first-class
store for the sale of general merchan-
chandise about the first week in April.
Between 800 and 400 hands are on
strike in the Edison electric light
works at Harrison, N. J. The cause
of trouble was the discharge of the
boys who it was discovered had broken
about 300 of the glass lamps stored in
the building.
The Knights who were discharged
two years ago in a large wood working
establishment in Nashville, Ind, be-
cause they were Knights, started a
cooperative concern in opposition and
are doing a large and profitable bust
ness and greatly injuring the business
of the men who discharged them. OF
course they should be indicted for
conspiracy.